Danny's School on NPR!

Hey y'all NPR addicts - didja catch this one?

Embry Riddle was featured on ATC yesterday when a reporter went on a simulated CanadaAir flight to see how pilots are dependent on technology to "steer" the plane using GPS coordinates, just as Danny taught us! I felt proud to be able to say - oh I already know about that! The teacher said he emphasizes to the students - this is what you want (when you put in the coordinates) and this is what you get - don't look at the first one, look at the second one!

Go Danny!

love,

Agelaius

SNOW at 4920

I haven't checked in here for a long time but I thought you'd like this silly video I made of our snow adventure. Today is Monday and all is back to normal since the school buses are back in business (no school buses on Friday.) Tuesday's blizzard gave us quite an adventure. I was at work till at Children's Memorial until 3:00 which is right when the snow started -- so glad I wasn't at our old hosp. down in Hyde Park which would've meant coming home on LSD which, you probably saw photos of all the cars trapped there... Gigi and I walked to her piano lesson at 5:00 in blowing & drifting snow but it was even worse when we headed just 2 blocks away for my birthday dinner at Galapagos which is on the corner of Hamlin & Lawrence. It was little house on the prairie pa going out to the barn in the blizzard time -- esp. the walk back against the wind, deep deep snow on the sidewalks. What an adventure. By then we already knew the HISTORIC EVENT: snowday called by CPS, first time in 12 years. And then Thursday, TOO! On Weds. I helped R. dig out our LONG driveway... check this out the video.

Snow Removal

Well, I never got up to my knees in snow, but I'm certainly tired of dealing with the snow. Thank goodness for snow blowers. Yesterday, we got dumped on -- about 6 inches in 6 hours. I put off dealing with it until it stopped, and was baking cookies when a neighbor did most of our sidewalk! yay! Then I just had to do our neighbor's walk and drive.

Miraculously, they came and plowed this morning, which means the much worse job of shoveling out the really heavy glop which blocks the drive. I thought I'd include a picture of the mountain of snow between our drive and our next door neighbor's drive. Very frustrating to try and get the snow to perch on top of the mountain, without falling down and needing to be picked up again.

But now I'm all set for the Superbowl -- big exhausting chore done, so I don't have to do any more housework, wood downstairs for a nice comfortable fire, bunch of cookies to nibble on, and an engaging book nicely started so I can completely ignore reality for a while.

Snowmore

Dear Sibs:

Well, people have come up with all sorts of horrible puns about the snow. We both got sent home early and so missed the travails of traveling. We both also stayed home on Wednesday, largely because we couldn't have gone anywhere had we wanted to. We began with a large breakfast at 6:00 a.m.; set out shoveling; and didn't finish until 3:00 p.m.! Granted, we took rest breaks in between - watching Benny Hill and Monty Python because we were too exhausted to think - but it was quite a day! As you can see, Rick was up to his knees in snow. Hope you have all recovered from your snow days!

Love,
Gilly